MOSTAR, Nov 27 (Hina) - The Hague-based international war crimes tribunal has decided to separate the trial against Bosnian Serb Momcilo Krajisnik from that of former president of Republika Srpska, Biljana Plavsic, because she pleaded
guilty to charges, the tribunal's coordinator in Bosnia, Refik Hodzic, said in Mostar on Wednesday.
MOSTAR, Nov 27 (Hina) - The Hague-based international war crimes
tribunal has decided to separate the trial against Bosnian Serb
Momcilo Krajisnik from that of former president of Republika
Srpska, Biljana Plavsic, because she pleaded guilty to charges, the
tribunal's coordinator in Bosnia, Refik Hodzic, said in Mostar on
Wednesday. #L#
Hodzic said there would be no trial against Plavsic. The tribunal
would only pass a sentence against her for charges she had pleaded
guilty to.
The trial against Krajisnik, who has been in detention in The Hague
since April 2000, will begin in February 2003, Hodzic announced,
stressing all was ready for the start of the trial.
The coordinator said the tribunal had planned to conduct the trial
against Krajisnik together with that against Radovan Karadzic and
Ratko Mladic who are still at large.
"It is very important that Karadzic and Mladic are urgently
arrested and extradited to The Hague," Hodzic said.
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